Joy is the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires. Inspirational joy quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell
When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. – Buddha
Happy is as happy does. – Unknown
He who laughs last, laughs best. – Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. – Unknown
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. – Mother Teresa
We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. – Joseph Campbell
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it. – Chuck Palahniuk
Souls who are capable of love are also capable of immense happiness and joy. Joy is the path that leads to both love and happiness. Once we devote ourselves to cultivating joy, we discover that we are surrounded by love. If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. – Carlos Santana
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… It’s your responsibility to love it, or change it. – Chuck Palahniuk
Out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. – Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
People should take time to be happy. – Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Sorrow doesn’t kill, reckless joy does. – Yoruba (West African (on joy and sorrow)
The soul’s joy lies in doing. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. – Carlos Santana
Let your joy be in your journey-not in some distant goal. – Tim Cook
Joy is the serious business of Heaven. – C. S. Lewis
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. – Joseph Campbell
If you’re not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life. – Penny Marshall
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. – Emily Dickinson
Sorrow is to the soul, as worm is to wood. – Turkish (on joy and sorrow)
The more the merrier. – John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
The person who gets stuck on petty happiness, will not attain great happiness. – Tibetan (on joy and sorrow)
The joy that isn’t shared dies young. – Anne Sexton
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. – Khalil Gibran
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. – Nhat Hanh
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. – Rumi
Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. – Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. – Tomm Bodett
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – Nicolas Chamfort
Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. – Sean O’Casey
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. – Thich Nhat Hanh
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. – Mark Twain
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. – Rumi
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. – Pierre de Chardin
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… – Susan Polis Schutz
We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy. – Goldie Hawn
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. – Mark Twain
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. – Buddha
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. – Christopher McCandless
Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it’s meant to take you. – Jonathan Groff
Comparison is the death of joy. – Mark Twain
A flower blossoms for its own joy. – Oscar Wilde
Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained. – Terry Pratchett
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. – Greg Anderson
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters. – Oprah Winfrey
Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day. – Roy T. Bennett
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go. – Frederick William Faber
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness – all the good things. – Maya Angelou
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are… Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. – RJ Baughan
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. – Chinese Proverb
Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy. – Ann Voskamp
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable. – Gabrielle Roy
Joy is increased by spreading it to others. – Robert Murray McCheyne
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. – Helen Keller
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. – Montaigne
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. – Storm Jameson
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself. – Mahatma Gandhi
Optimists find joy in small things. They are more concerned with having many small joys rather than having one huge joy. – Robert M. Sherfield
Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. – Henri Nouwen
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. – Leo Tolstoy
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. – Henry Ward Beecher
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. – Christian Nestell Bovee
Joy is not in things; it is in us. – Richard Wagner
You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. – John Templeton
When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom. – Marianne Williamson
The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. – Jean Paul Richter
The only joy in the world is to begin. – Cesare Pavese
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. – Euripedes
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. – George Bernard Shaw
Joy is not a commodity to be hoarded and protected. It is like a muscle. It must be used daily to keep strong and vigorous. – Laura Moncur
A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy. – Mother Teresa
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. – R.A. Salvatore
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. – Ninon de Lenclos
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t’were his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don’t want to suffer, they won’t be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by. – Geneen Roth
Optimists find joy in small things. They enjoy sunsets, a good conversation with a close friend; and they enjoy life in general. They are more concerned with having many small joys rather than having one huge joy. – Robert M. Sherfield
